Le jeu de la prédication dans certains composés nominaux - article ; n°1 ; vol.122, pg 52-69

Langue française - Année 1999 - Volume 122 - Numéro 1 - Pages 52-69
Jean-Claude ANSCOMBRE: The role of predication in some French nominal compounds The aim of this article is to account, in terms of 'deep predication' for syntactic and semantic properties of those of French nominal compounds iV, àiV2 that are not idioms. Such a word formation, extremely productive in Modern French, mainly provides terms that refer to subsets of things: iV| à iV2 is a hyponym of 7V| . The study is carried out within the framework of the theory of linguistic stereotypes, especially as regards genericity. The first part is devoted to an examination of the possibility/impossibility for such nominals to be built up, and shows that it crucially depends on the existence of a peculiar generic connection between N1 and N2. The second part is an attempt to find out the conditions under which the N2 of a compound noun N1 o N2 can be anaphorized by means of le N2, son N2, and en respectively. Once again, such possibilities are closely related to the above mentioned generic connection, especially as regards the type of (deep) predication involved.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.